Thanks. I smoke and I found the title and subject matter interesting. I am not a genius but am perfectly capable of understanding the article. It is just mental

Thanks. I smoke and I found the title and subject matter interesting. I am not a genius but am perfectly capable of understanding the article. It is just mentally taxing trying to wade through a sentence structure that seems aimed at a goal of obfuscating knowledge and proving the writer is intelligent rather than disclosing the information in a terse digestible way. Below, someone pointed out that there are many grammatical errors as well. I have thought a lot more about long form articles in publications like the New Yorker and NYT, etc. While often criticized for over simplifications and lack of understanding of subject matter, they often present articles in a way casually interested parties will understand. I don't have a problem with the jargon, large/obscure word use (to the extent it is reasonable) or otherwise employing tactics to get the point across. It is just that, as someone casually interested (not an academic looking for citations) I don't really know what to do with this sentence: > Cannabis use almost always predates psychosis, is associated with an earlier age at onset (Donoghue et al., 2014; Myles et al., 2012b) and heavier and more potent cannabis users have an increased risk of developing psychosis (Di Forti et al., 2009) and do so at an earlier age than people smoking milder cannabis (Di Forti et al., 2014). I wish they would just use superscripts for citations, as a significant portion of that sentence is citations. If academics would just edit the papers, dump them into Tufte CSS or LaTEX with sitations as footnotes or sidenotes and adapt a style human beings could digest without collapsing to rest from the boredom and dull overly-complex structure I think they may find a readership base that exceeds the single digits it currently has. Do you know of a place with interesting articles written for non-academics? I think that would be a cool thing and sure it exists? Cheers.